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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:58:33 CST
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- From: Rick Francis <C47805NF@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: Brother's Keeper
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- Michael McDonald, as you saw, Scott generously provided the basic info
- on _Brother's Keeper_. Incidentally, I think the title is just that, as
- opposed to MY BK. At least that's how I remember the titles in the
- film itself. No My. Just . . . Brother's Keeper.
-
- Some very clever documentary techniques, I thought, and very skillful
- means of pulling the audience in a particular way. I mean, these rural
- farmers are *way* out there, and I'm speaking as one who dealt regularly
- with rural Ozark types for a decade or so. So what do the directors do?
- I think they intentionally highlighted the weirdness, the strangeness,
- etc. and moved toward some understanding, empathy. On the other hand,
- the city types come off as shallow, self-serving, out-of-touch lying
- bastards. By the time they appear in the movie, the unflinching look at
- these yokels in upstate NY has managed to go from "Check out these primitives"
- to something fairer about the community as a whole. The docu-guys were
- smart enough to use (and lucky enough to find) a surprisngly articulate
- farmer who had known the brothers all their lives. Helluvaflick, I thought.
-
- oop, gotta go. Anyone going to MLA to enjoy the holidays? Heh.
-
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